Monday, January 29, 2007

Lastly, from the Best of '06

Stem cells

In a grass roots effort to reject the Bush Administration's recalcitrant position on what promises to be the most exciting area of stopping and reversing - and possible curing - the progression of many major diseases, many states took legislative initiatives to accelerate the finding and development of new stem cell-based research and therapies.

Again, am I missing something in saying that the consequence (perhaps unintended) of Bush's embryonic stem cell funding ban seems to have been to simultaneously start a conversation about bioethics while not managing to stifle innovation?

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